Across
- 3. The specific technology Postman identifies as the primary force reshaping all public discourse into entertainment.
- 5. The drug-like amusement in Brave New World that Postman compares to television's distracting power.
- 7. The phrase that exemplifies television's complete lack of context or connection between stories.
- 8. The age defined by rational, coherent, and complex public discourse, now lost to television.
- 10. Postman's concept for how a civilization's dominant form of communication shapes its very character and values.
Down
- 1. The era of television's dominance, where all institutions are turned into mere amusement.
- 2. Postman's term for the kind of fragmented, image-based reality created by telegraphy and photography.
- 4. The ratio describing our inability to act on the overwhelming flood of disconnected information we receive.
- 6. The principle that the form of a medium shapes and controls the scope and quality of the ideas it can convey.
- 9. The Huxleyan fear that we would be so distracted by trivia we'd become passive, not a captive culture.